Richard Prins discusses his approach to translating the lyrics of contemporary Swahili hip-hop artists for his book «Brain Flavour», forthcoming this summer from Tenement Press.
On Swahili Hip-Hop and the Insufficiency of Translation
Translating the Elliptical
Shushan Avagyan makes an urgent case for preserving the abundant ellipses when translating Zabel Yesayan’s «Averagnerun mej» (1911), an account of massacres in Ottoman Turkey.
Riff-driven
Jess Jensen Mitchell is lured into the weird and wild world(s) of translation multiples, the genre that Kasia Szymanska identifies and explores in her new book of the same name.
Quotidian Violence
Michelle Mirabella foregrounds different forms of violence in Marília Arnaud’s story collection «The Book of Affects», translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Ilze Duarte.
Mumbo Jumbo, Verbal Acrobatics, Fun
Barbara Thimm takes a simultaneously playful and practical approach to translation as reading, drawing on her teaching as well as her own translation of German novelist Ror Wolf.
The Translator’s Visibility
Noah Rawlings teases out the implicit theory of translation to be found in Lydia Davis’s recent essay collections and reflects on the translation strategies she has deployed.
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